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Dopper
/ ˈdɒpə /
noun
- (in South Africa) a member of the most conservative Afrikaner Church, which practises a strict Calvinism
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Dopper1
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Example Sentences
I went to see this reverend pastor, who is professor of a school of Dopper theology.
Just opposite stands the little chapel of the so-called Dopper sect in which he occasionally preaches.
The young Dopper warmly grasped the other, provoking a squeal from the enchantress.
Of these the narrowest, most puritanical, and most bigoted was the Dopper sect, to which Kruger belonged.
But there were kopjes ahead, sown with fierce Dopper Boers, and those tempting wagons were only to be reached over their bodies.
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